Kris Kowal wrote: >I made a foray with PIL a couple days ago to determine the feasibility > of generating graphics with arbitrary "Elvish" text, with a web > interface, on demand. I used the definitive true type font to > generate a graphic of the word "ainalda", with some success. However, > it didn't print the diacritics. > > The Elvish fonts contain characters that print text before the cursor. > In Elvish, you type out a consonant character, then you can apply > modifier glyphs to the previous character, like two dots on bottom, a > bar on top, or a hook attached to the end. This works fine in most > applications, including web browsers. For some reason, PIL interprets > these modifier characters as a blank space.
probably a bug in the freetype driver for PIL. is the font available? if so, a pointer to the font and a code sample and a "expected output" screenshot (from a program where the font works as expected) would be helpful. </F> _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig
